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The term refers very probably to the casket in which the late President Kennedy was taken from Dallas to Washington. His "Handley" casket had been manufactured by the (former) Elgin Metal Casket Company of Elgin, (IL), which had provided the bronze casket of President Coolidge already. The "Handley" was a double lid sealer casket (without an inner glass panel) weighing more than 300 lbs empty. The exterior had what Elgin called a "Britannia finish" (meaning that the metal had been partially "brushed" or "scratched") with a transparent amber (dark reddish) tint. The interior consisted of an adjustable inner mattress and a white velvet and satin lining. The casket certainly would have been used for Kennedy's burial, had it not been damaged during the loading / unloading process by the Secret Service people who tore off the ornamental attachments of the swing bar handles. For that reason, it was replaced with a new casket (made of solid mahogany). The original Elgin casket eventually was dumped in the Atlantic Ocean in 1966 by the Airforce in order to prevent it from becoming an object of morbid curiosity.
The successor to the "Handley" model is still in production. A few years after President Kennedy's death, Elgin changed the flaring round corner design somewhat by giving it a more pronounced urn shape. After the Elgin company had been sold to the renown mattress producer Simmons in 1968, the "Handley" design was replaced by the "Winchester" model, which differed from its predecessor mainly by some embossings. The casket is still manufactured today by VerPlank Enterprises of Iron City (TN) and can be seen in the Online Catalog of the company.
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What is a bronze or copper inner casket liner with full oval glass lid?
A casket liner is a coffin inside a burial casket. While zinc or steel liners are used for international shipments of remains, copper or bronze liners are primarily used in wooden luxury caskets to give them a protective quality against the elements, especially against ground water. Unfortunately, the terminology varies: sometimes the expression "inner liner" is reserved to a liner not possessing a sealing gasket while a hermetically sealing (air and water tight) liner sometimes is called "inner sealer". It seems that such liners are no longer manufactured in the US. The liners were usually made of standard 32oz copper or bronze sheets. The (empty) weight of 32oz bronze liners with glass lid was between 200 and 250 lbs. Their wholesale price was approximately half the price of a standard bronze or copper casket. The lid was either of metal or of plate glass. If the glass lid had almost the length of the casket, it was called a full lid. Usually the glass lid was not flat but oval, possessing a slight dome shape. In rare cases, the glass lid was covered by an additional protective metal lid which usually was divided into two halves (a head end panel and a foot end panel). Many wooden caskets could be retrofitted with inner casket liners. Thus the same casket could be purchased with or without an inner liner. The funeral director just had to remove the textile lining from the wooden casket, place the metallic liner into the casket and reattach the textile lining to the inside of the casket liner. Wooden caskets designed for being equipped with an inner liner possessing a glass lid usually have a "hinged cap" lid, which means that not the complete - full or half - top opens up for viewing, but only the "cap" or "crown", while the "ogee" or frame of the lid remains attached to the base of the casket. The rather small opening of the wooden top in hinged cap caskets has the effect that just the glass lid is visible and not the metal liner. Casket liners must not be confused with grave liners (non protective burial vaults) or with metal or plastic liners inside of a concrete burial vault.
What color is in the middle light in a set of traffic lights. In Australia?
Amber
What does four flashing lights on a Coleman evcon furnace mean?
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What happens to the member ports of a VLAN when the VLAN is deleted?
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What is a cloth covered casket and what kind of cloth covers are there?
A cloth covered casket is a coffin the exterior of which is covered with textile. Most cloth covered caskets are made of wood, either of softwood (woods from needle or cone bearing trees like: Pine, Poplar, Spruce, Red Cypress, Cedar and Redwood) or of wood products like particle boards, pressed wood, high strength cardboard, corrugated fiberboard, composite wood or plywood. The cloth for covering the exterior of the casket usually consists of textiles like doeskin (moleskin), broadcloth, plush, lambskin, felt or denim, but sometimes also of brocade, tweed, velvet, suede or other textiles. The cloth may be plain or embossed, for example with patterns like leaves; in rare cases also colorful patterns can be found. Cloth covered caskets are oftentimes used as infants' caskets, but also as economical adults' coffins, both for earth burials and cremations. Cloth covered caskets often have a square or octagonal shape and a flat top or a "hinged cap" lid; round corner and urn shaped designs are rare. In most cases low cost interiors made of crepe, satin or twill are used. In the US, most cloth covered caskets currently (2014) range between $ 300 and 1,500 in retail prices. While in 1950 still more than one half of all caskets sold in the US were cloth covered caskets, this proportion fell until 2009 to 11% and is now probably around 10% and while in the 1950s almost every casket manufacturer had cloth covered caskets in its line, there are today only some three dozen companies manufacturing such products. Most of these companies manufacture for local or regional markets only.
What type of casket was JFK's Dallas casket from Oneal funeral home?
Vernon O'Neal provided a solid bronze double lid (non-glass) sealer casket named "Handley", manufactured by the (former) Elgin Metallic Casket Company of Elgin, Ill. It had an amber "Britannia" finish - Elgin's designation for a partially brushed (i.e. "scratched" looking) casket exterior, the unbrushed parts of which possessed a transparent tint or dye - in this case of amber (reddish) color. The casket had an adjustable mattress and an eggshell velvet interior. The empty weight of the casket was over 300 lbs. O'Neal requested a sales price of $ 3.995 (estimated wholesale price at that time around $ 1.000) from the US-government, but was forced to lower the price later by $ 500. The casket certainly would have been used for Kennedy's burial, had it not been damaged during the loading / unloading process by the Secret Service people who tore off the ornamental attachments of the swing bar handles. For that reason, it was replaced with a new casket (a Marsellus # 710 solid mahogany casket for which Gawler's funeral home in Washington, D.C. charged $2460 ). The original Elgin casket eventually was dumped in the Atlantic ocean in 1966 by the Airforce in order to prevent it from becoming an object of morbid curiosity. The successor to the "Handley" model is still in production. A few years after President Kennedy's death, the Elgin Company changed the flaring round corner design of "Handley" somewhat by giving it a more pronounced urn shape. After Elgin had been bought by the mattress producer Simmons in 1968, the "Handley" was replaced by the "Winchester" model, which differed from its predecessor mainly by some embossings. The casket is still manufactured by VerPlank Enterprises of Tennessee and can be seen in the Online Catalog of that Company. p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } a solid bronze double lid model named "Handley", manufactured by the former Elgin Metallic Casket Company of Elgin, Ill. It had an amber "Britannia" finish - Elgin's designation for a partially brushed (i.e. "scratched" looking) casket exterior, the unbrushed parts of which possessed a transparent tint or dye - in this case of amber (reddish) color.
How was Britain callend in the time of Romans?
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What is a casket?
A casket is either a little box, such as a jewellery casket, or a coffin.
What was the name of the UK during the Roman occupation?
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Do maggots eat a body when in a casket?
if the casket is sealed where they cant get in then no but they can if the casket is not sealed good
What has the author Britannia written?
Britannia has written: 'A letter from Britannia to the King' -- subject(s): Politics and government
When was The Casket created?
The Casket was created in 1852.
Can you rent a casket for burial?
Usually for a cremation service only. There are special rental casket which can receive an inner cremation casket. After the service the cremation casket is taken out of the oversize rental casket and taken to the crematory.
When did Britannia Theatre end?
Britannia Theatre ended in 1900.
When was Britannia Theatre created?
Britannia Theatre was created in 1841.
When was Britannia Industries created?
Britannia Industries was created in 1892.
When was Britannia silver created?
Britannia silver was created in 1697.
